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TIL: Norman Ernest Borlaug saved over a billion lives through improvements in farming

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neLa7 TIL the BBC created a Radio Soap Opera during WWII specifically for the American market. It was propaganda designed to get the USA to end its neutrality. One of the aims of the show was to appeal to those with a 'limited mentality'. It ended up being a popular radio show in the US.
b9N TIL that, as a way to detect nighttime predators, many species of animals (ducks, dolphins, whales, iguanas) will sleep with one eye open. One hemisphere of their brain is asleep while the other one is awake.
wLOg7 TIL That the band Aerosmith once bailed out at least 30 of their fans who were arrested for smoking weed at their show.
m1Ppv TIL that powerful jets of high-energy particles created by supermassive black holes must be pointed at Earth to be called a Blazar
d8ROr TIL that Judas Priest is banned for life (even as spectators to other events!) at Madison Square Garden after a riot at a 1984 concert cost the arena $250,000 in damages